Ex-NFL player Claude Terrell jailed in Texas City rape

Ex-Rams player Terrell jailed in Texas City rape

Published 6:30 am, Thursday, February 17, 2011

Claude Terrell, shown in 2005, was arrested on Nov. 19, 2010, on charges of assaulting a woman he's now accused of attacking again.

Claude Terrell, shown in 2005, was arrested on Nov. 19, 2010, on charges of assaulting a woman he's now accused of attacking again.

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Ex-NFL player Claude Terrell jailed in Texas City rape

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GALVESTON — Former St. Louis Rams guard and La Marque football all-star Claude Terrell is accused of beating and forcing sex on a Texas City woman at gunpoint during a seven-hour ordeal, Texas City police said on Thursday.

Terrell, released by the Rams in 2007 after his arrest on charges of assaulting his wife, was arrested Monday night in Houston, Texas City police spokesman Cpt. Brian Goetschius said.

Terrell was arrested Nov. 19 on charges of assaulting the same woman, he said. No attorney had been appointed to represent Terrell on the latest charges.

The woman, whose name is being withheld because she is a sexual assault victim, was attacked Monday after dropping her children off at school and returning to her Texas City apartment at about 8:30 a.m., Goetschius said.

Terrell, 28, was waiting for her when she arrived and had found her .38-caliber handgun, he said.

Terrell is accused of beating and sexually assaulting her until about 3:30 p.m., Goetschius said.

"It was a day full of terror and torment," he said.

Police received a call about 5 p.m. from Mainland Medical Center, where they found the badly bruised woman, he said.

At the request of prosecutors, Terrell's $25,000 bail for the Nov. 19 assault was revoked Thursday, then doubled to $50,000, Galveston County Assistant District Attorney James Haugh said.

Terrell remains in the Galveston County jail with bail set at $600,000 on the latest charges: burglary with intended sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping, each a felony carrying a sentence of from five to 99 years imprisonment or life. He also is charged with enhanced family violence with a sentence ranging from two to 10 years.

Terrell is serving three years probation from Harris County for a 2007 family assault charge, Haugh said.